Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Total generation in spring and fall is consistently lower because of lower electricity demand for heating and cooling in the shoulder seasons. Then came a crescendo: Solar and wind generated more than 5 percent of monthly electricity for the first time in 2013, passed the 10 percent point in 2017, and soared past 15 percent in 2021.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2024

Local’s trying to cool down on the 21st of May in Karachi, Pakistan. This is because, on extremely hot days, people opt to stay indoors trying to stay cool. For the past month, several regions across Asia have struggled with extreme heat which scientists have said are made much worse by climate change.

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Frontiers

MARCH 14, 2023

Bd spores thrive in cool, moist habitats, and become embedded and multiply in the keratinized mouthparts and skin of salamanders, newts, and caecilians, but especially frogs and toads. We don’t have a good idea of why the change seems most evident around 2000 in Africa, that is later than on other continents.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface. Antarctica is such a place – remote from society yet influentially connected to the world’s environment that it relies on for survival.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The report-- Water Withdrawal and Consumptive Use Estimates for the Delaware River Basin (1990-2017) with Projections through 2060 -- shows more people using less water overall is indicative of the benefits of water efficiency in the Basin. Click Here for a copy of the report. Click Here to sign up for regulator updates.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 12, 2022

This is due to the extremely high quality of fruit that Western Colorado can produce, given its ideal climate (warm days, cool nights in the summer) and access to local markets, which allows the picking and sales of peaches at a more “tree ripe” stage (i.e., farmgate price) in the nation (USDA-NASS, 2019). Biology (e.g., Minas, I.S.,

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Among these, climate change is becoming more dire every month and global biodiversity is collapsing right in front of our eyes. Back to 2017, I had loved listening to famous environmentalist Paul Hawken present his book Drawdown. But what if we could turn these tides around ?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 12, 2022

Extreme heat and heatwaves are growing more frequent and more severe because of climate change. That often brings to mind images of people trying to catch some shade under a baking hot sun or city kids cooling off in a fountain while their parents sweat on the sidelines. How much more likely are hot nights given climate change?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

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Ivy Protocol

JULY 25, 2023

However, the true challenge lies not in satisfying our taste buds, but in taking meaningful action to cool down our planet. By Ivy Protocol, 2023 The Customer and Climate Action: An Emerging Link Rising customer demand is another catalyst for a clear claims taxonomy. The Mitigation Hierarchy: Why It Matters Trouwloon et al.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

9] That $50 billion, and future money, is money that could have gone to making the grid more resilient to extreme weather events, whether from climate change or not, but instead went into subsidizing the integration of variable renewable energy sources. We can see the same impact of variable energies in Germany.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Applications were evaluated for their degree of environmental protection, innovation, partnership, economic impact, consideration of climate change and sustainability, and outcomes achieved. A surge tank was installed to collect stormwater runoff from three acres of roof space; the water supplements cooling tower water.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2025

When climate change comes knocking at our door, we need to be prepared. That is why we must tackle the climate crisis and the affordable housing crisis at the same time. A man who asked to not be named tries to stay cool near a misting station in Lents Park during an extreme heat wave August 13, 2021 in Portland, Oregon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Over the past 30-40 years, wildfire data show a clear signal from climate change: As global temperatures have warmed over the past several decades, western wildfires have worsened by nearly every metric, from the number, size, and severity of fires to the length of wildfire season.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I started the conversation with Gomberg, who focuses on clean energy integration and grid modernization issues, and ended it with Licker, a contributing author for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who helps explain the nuances of climate science developments to policymakers, the news media and the general public.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change. This came as quite a surprise to the climate community – though it was welcomed warmly. Klaus Hasselmann (1997).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

While summer is still summer and we on the climate team at UCS look forward to ice cream and late sunsets as much as anyone, there’s something we need to tell you: Climate change has transformed summer into our country’s Danger Season, and we’d best start seeing it as such so that we can adequately prepare. Dangerous?!

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% Climate-change risks are severe and growing, even if uncertain in their precise character, timing, and incidence. to 1%) of incoming sunlight.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

KUOW reports that the glacier was one of four to flow into the Skykomish River, providing the basin, and its fish and fishermen, with cool water in hot, dry summers. In the southeast, climate change-induced drought is causing the deaths of thousands of wild and domesticated animals per year, InsideClimate News reports.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tom Wolf announced the Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan 2021 and called for statewide action on climate change by all sectors: legislative, government, industry, business, agriculture, and community organizations. “As Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan 2021 is where to start. Tom Wolf. “The Where to start?” Read more here.]

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Long term, climate change is a greater threat than the COVID-19 pandemic. Without human-induced climate change, that heat would be at least 150 times rarer. On balance, clouds nearer the stratosphere warm us, whereas low-lying clouds tend to cool us because their greenhouse effect is smaller.

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Breezometer

JULY 27, 2021

And before joining BreezoMeter, Yvonne spent a month in the high Arctic, where she and her colleagues investigated the reasons for the extreme effects of climate change in this region of the world. One clear question emerges: is climate change an imp etus for worsening wildfire seasons? Let me show you what I mean….

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

And we have done so since 2017 even as we have continued to grow. jobs, including 603,900 direct jobsup 51% since 2017. billion in federal, state, and local tax revenue in 2023, 146 % above 2017, highlighting its growing fiscal value. 4 In 2023, it supported 4.7 million U.S. Direct contributions added 231 billion to GDP.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

2017), and demonstrate its different applications across disciplines today. As the final stop in our journey together, my dear reader, I’d like to share how I have found my own creative expression as individual resilience through compounding crises such as climate change, the pandemic, economic uncertainty, and social injustice.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Some of the impacts of climate change are playing out faster and with a greater magnitude than we predicted.”. While we still have those things, the facts show that climate change has transformed the months of May through October into what we are calling the Danger Season. Those impacts do not affect everyone equally.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

After a program review in 2017, the EPA found Pennsylvania was not on track to meeting its targets, and so as the biggest water contributor, the state had to set robust targets, including planting about 86,000 acres (34,800 hectares) of riparian buffers, which slow water flow to trap sediment and pollutants. “The

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

Although not a silver bullet, it is likely to have positive consequences of decreasing GHGs, advancing work to prepare for the worsening physical impacts of climate change, and encouraging climate friendly innovations. [10] It is also consistent with the movement embracing climate-forward or “progressive federalism.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2024

Climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is exacerbating Beryl-like hurricanes , heat waves , and other extreme weather phenomena. CenterPoint spends millions opposing climate action in several states in which it operates. Increasing access to community cooling centers can also mitigate the impact of heat waves.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 21, 2022

Climate change is intensifying heat and drought in the mountains east of Phoenix and has left San Carlos Lake, formed by 92-year-old Coolidge Dam, 97 percent empty. “On the contrary, it’s happening with dramatic decline in Colorado River supplies, and in snowpack, and in water recharge in general. . We have one cup of tea.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

The petitioners hope that disaster declarations can unlock federal funds for short-term relief such as cooling centers, water supplies, emergency air conditioning and air filtration systems, and financial assistance for evacuations. There is something else that would make their case even stronger: Data on people.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

(Figure 1) These properties are a double-edged sword: while they are the root of the problems that black carbon causes, they also make mitigating black carbon one of the most actionable ways to fight climate change. Short-Lived Climate Pollutants. Or have you ever been in a city on a particularly hazy day? Black Carbon.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

The NWS’ own assessment in 2017 found that private businesses can derive up to $13 billion dollars in economic value from weather knowledge, and that its freely-available data powers a $7 billion-dollar market that creates tailored weather products for business and people. That investment totals about $1.3 But guess what?

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